CASCADE


Meaning of CASCADE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kæskeɪd ]

( cascades, cascading, cascaded)

1.

If you refer to a cascade of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it. ( LITERARY )

The women have lustrous cascades of black hair...

N-COUNT : usu N of n

2.

If water cascades somewhere, it pours or flows downwards very fast and in large quantities.

She hung on as the freezing, rushing water cascaded past her...

VERB : V adv / prep

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